Melanie Muller

Opposition Party Behavior and Minority Government Support Melanie Muller

Opposition parties in minority governments are partly responsible for government stability without being able to neglect their accountability to the electorate, a dilemma that, as this book shows, has many electoral as well as policy advantages for opposition parties. This book's analysis of opposition behaviour in the Swedish Riksdag (1991-2018) sheds light on the rationality of minority governments from an opposition perspective: receiving political influence without jeopardising one's party profile. The author studies oppositional behaviour in Swedish minority governments using quantitative and qualitative methods.